• No Support for Two Hypotheses About the Communicative Functions of Displaying Disgust: Evidence From Turkey, Norway, Germany, and Croatia 

      Al-Shawaf, Laith; Lewis, David M. G.; Ghossainy, Maliki E.; Kennair, Leif Edward Ottesen; Mikloušić, Igor; Schwarz, Sascha; White, Kaitlyn P. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      In recent years, researchers have discovered much about how disgust works, its neural basis, its relationship with immune function, its connection with mating, and some of its antecedents and consequents. Despite these ...
    • Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries 

      Kowal, Marta; Sorokowski, Piotr; Pisanski, Katarzyna; Valentova, Jaroslava Varella; Varella, Marco A. C.; Frederick, David A.; Al-Shawaf, Laith; García, Felipe E.; Giammusso, Isabella; Gjoneska, Biljana; Kozma, Luca; Otterbring, Anders Emil Tobias; Papadatou-Pastou, Marietta; Pfuhl, Gerit; Stöckli, Sabrina; Studzinska, Anna; Toplu-Demirtas, Ezgi; Touloumakos, Anna K.; Bakos, Bence E.; Batres, Carlota; Bonneterre, Solenne; Czamanski-Cohen, Johanna; Dacanay, Jovi C.; Deschrijver, Eliane; Fisher, Maryanne L.; Grano, Caterina; Grigoryev, Dmitry; Kačmár, Pavol; Kozlov, Mikhail V.; Manunta, Efisio; Massar, Karlijn; McFall, Joseph P.; Mebarak, Moises; Miccoli, Maria Rosa; Milfont, Taciano L.; Prokop, Pavol; Aavik, Toivo; Arriaga, Patricia; Baiocco, Roberto; Cenek, Jiri; Cetinkaya, Hakan; Duyar, Izzet; Guemaz, Farida; Ishii, Tatsunori; Kamburidis, Julia A.; Khun-Inkeeree, Hareesol; Grassini, Simone; Nyhus, Ellen K.; Siepelmeyer, Henrik; Singh, Sangeeta (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating ...